VTools

Set of Blender functions and operators to speed up various operations/processes.

Functions

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Quick-access methods for use in the Python Console:

• Active(): gets the active object, in Object Mode
• ActiveAction(): gets the active action, selected in the Action Editor window
• ActiveBone(): gets the active bone of an armature, in either Edit Mode or Pose Mode
• SelectedVertex()/SelectedVertexes(): gets the active vertex/vertexes, in Edit Mode
• Get3DCursorPosition(): gets the location of the 3D cursor in world space
• Object(name): gets the object with the given name
• Objects(): gets a list of all objects in the scene
• Selected(): gets the selected object, in Object Mode
• Material(): gets the material with the given name
• ActiveMaterial(): gets the active material
• ActiveNode(): gets the active material's first selected node

Operators

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Select keyframes in range

Copy keyframes to new action

Copies the selected keyframes to a new action.

Retarget action

Transforms the action's keyframes to be based-on/relative-to the active-object's armature's rest-pose, rather than the specified source-object's armature's rest-pose.

Move keyframes to

Move keyframe-segment, such that its first-frame becomes the given frame.

Copy keyframes to new actions

Focus on selected vertexes

Set position - local

Reset scale while preserving world space mesh

Separate islands into different objects

Create armature from object heirarchy

Convert action curves to datapath approach

Converts the active-action's curves from the [bone-name = group-name, component = data-path] approach, to the [bone-name = data-path-part, component = data-path-part] approach

Convert action rotation curves to quaternion type

Converts the active-action's rotation curves from the 3-prop euler type, to the 4-prop quaternion type.

Replace action curve bones

For each curve linked with old-bone-name, relink to new-bone-name.

Copy action curves for new bone

For each selected curve, duplicate curve and link duplicate with new-bone.

Create merged action from actions

Retarget action from object heirarchy to armature

Transforms the action's keyframes to be based-on/relative-to the active-object's armature's rest-pose, rather than the specified source-object's rest-pose.

Transform action keyframes

Transforms the action's keyframes, based on the transformation between from-object and to-object.

Set up material

Modifies the active material's nodes to match a given preset.